Forest products

I have recently been talking to several suppliers and producers in the pulp and paper industry in Asia, and the good news is that it looks as if the Chinese pulp and paper market is on a fast expansion track again. There are new projects, big and small, signed or under discussion again in the recent months, after a quiet period since late last year.

China forestry sector output totals $195 bln, up 13% year on year

SCA Ortviken’s new pulp plant inaugurated

June 25th, 2009: Wood fiber consumption by the Japanese pulp industry reached a record high in 2008. Over 72 percent of the consumed wood chips were imported, most from hardwood plantations in the Southern Hemisphere. The costs of imported wood chips have increased substantially the past three years, reaching their highest level in at least 20 years during the 4Q/08 reports the Wood Resource Quarterly.*

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By Chris Cook, Deputy Editor, PPI Pulp & Paper Week, RISI

SAN FRANCISCO, June 12, 2009 - At a speech in Barcelona the other day, World Association of Newspapers (WAN) president Gavin O'Reilly had an upbeat message for newspaper executives from more than 50 countries who had come to exchange ideas on business strategies for the future.

• 1.9 billion people read a paid daily newspaper every day
• Newspapers reach 41% more adults than the world wide web
• More adults read a newspaper every day than people eat a Big Mac every year